Google Definition and 243 Threads

when you log into google Earth it seems to go generally above where i am. when i press the sky button on it does it show the sky-space directly above me? I'm very new to this as you might tell. very clear skies tonight though so i thought i'd try to get my bearings on a few stars. any tips also? tx

I can't reach them and I've been told a lot of their servers are down. They have DNS problems.

i've done my share of wire-wound nails

Hi guys, Is anybody else having this problem with Google Chrome browser? It was working very well before. Then I installed Symantec Antivirus and all of a sudden Chrome does not go to any webpages, giving me the error: Error 102 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED): Unknown error. I...

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article6665703.ece *mod edit: fixed for copyright compliance*

If I want to refer to a book that I read on google books, should I reference to the book itself or to the internet page?

When I took a look at Google Trends this morning, I found out that words such as "computer science," "software engineering," "programming," "c++/java" have been declining significantly over the years. Even "outsourcing" has been as well. Can anyone explain this pattern?

http://www.google.com/sky/

Should it be broken up? GMail Search Engine Web browser Soon to be operating system Should 1 company control this much information? No one really knows if google sends information on users to the US government. Google tracks your IP address, browser information, and date/time for...

http://www.google.com/sky/#latitude=-11.802834233547672&longitude=20.91796875&zoom=6&Spitzer=0.00&ChandraXO=0.00&Galex=0.00&IRAS=0.00&WMAP=0.00&Cassini=0.00&slide=2&mI=1&oI=0" as the title indicates what is that thing near moon?

I'm currently using google reader as my feed reader, but due to a lack of some features (the biggest ones are nesting folders, and the ability to mark previously read items unread again) want a different reader. The only thing keeping me from switching so far, is the "shared items" in google...

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2350771.ece Gee and my car is parked in my driveway on Google Earth too. Given that it is a snapshot of sorts at some rolling time, time not specified, it's hard to imagine that privacy is being violated, if people are parking cars on...

I was using at Google Earth, and used it to look at some directions when I noticed that program recommended that I take a right and drive down this road, then take a u-turn and drive past from where I turned originally, when I could've just simply taken a left instead. Does anyone know how...

The following reaction was monitored as a function of time: AB---> A + B A plot of 1/[AB] versus time yields a straight line with slope 5.2×10−2 M \s. If the initial concentration of AB} is 0.210 M, and the reaction mixture initially contains no products, what are the concentrations of {A}...

Has anyone actually used Google Chrome? I have a limited monthly bandwidth allowance so I'd prefer not to download it purely for test purposes, but would like to know what you guys think of it. Please compare it with whatever other browsers you've used/are using. Thanks! phyz

I created a forum recently and I found that it does not come as a search result when I search for it in Google. What do I do? Sriram

If you like to calculate, it can help you learn cosmo basics. Partly just by making it fun. Partly because it gives a hands-on dimension to what you are learning. If you don't find calculating basic cosmo numbers fun, then this thread is not for you. There are other less number-crunchy...

from http://www.google.org/about.html Searching for solutions http://www.google.org/index.html As of September 2008, Google.org has committed over $100 million in grants and investments to further our five initiatives. http://www.google.org/projects.html Other institutions...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7725560.stm

My physics teacher is using some sort of squiggly symbol that he's calling rho for density. It looks sort of like a backwards g. What is this symbol? How can I include it in my Google Docs reports/notes?

A minor bug: I'm using Google Chrome browser, I just posted a thread in Math: DE's and all the latex are showing up with white backgrounds, instead of clear. Not a serious issue, just letting you know it's there.

"Head First Physics" - view book via Safari trial or Google O'Reilly Books have recently released Head First Physics, which is an algebra-based introduction to the mechanics and experimental topics in the AP Physics B and A Level Physics courses. The book works from the ground up, using...

Got an idea to help the world? Here's $10 million http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/biztech/09/24/google.project/index.html http://www.project10tothe100.com/index.html There are a lot of smart people at PF. Go for it! :smile:

Recently this website has turned up on a lot of my google searches. They have articles about almost everything under the sun: health, technology, parenting, entertainment, ... Here is how they describe themselves: I am particularly interested in nutrition and healthy lifestyle choices and...

http://google.com/insights/search/#cat=&q=physics%20forum&geo=&date=&clp=&cmpt=q India seem to beat everyone else. I thought US would be at 1. 1. India 100 2. Canada 84 :biggrin: 3. Australia 71 4. United States 70 5. United Kingdom 66 6. Germany

I was sitting with my girlfriend yesterday and we were looking at videos of comets and meteorites because I wanted to show her the schumacher levy 9 impacts, that she had never heard of! :bugeye: :cry: Then we kind of did some link following which went a little like this: Comets, meteorites...

Ever since I updated the last edition of google Earth (which must have been a while ago now that I think of it) all those nice pictures that people have taken of places and put on panoramio that tag a location on the maps in google Earth aren't there anymore. I turn on all the different...

page on "google search" get it deleted? Can someone who does not want your page on "google search" get it deleted?

What do you guys think about this new service ? Will you consider using it ?

I don't understand how google can possibly afford to supply me with 6656 MB for e-mails for free, provide me with super-fast searches of the entire internet and tons of other amenities just on add money. I have never clicked on a google add (okay maybe once or twice by accident) and it is easy...

Hello everyone. I was going to apply to google (in a Intern Software Engineering position) and I was just wondering if anyone knew what types of questions they experienced in person or over the phone interviews. Thanks! -Cory

It has been a while since that story came out... "The role of the US Internet firm Yahoo in helping Chinese security officials to finger a journalist sentenced to 10 years for e-mailing "state secrets" is filtering into mainland China" one link to an article can be found here (but there...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7131937.stm

Google Maps... "Street View" Google Maps: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=washington+square+n&sll=40.738007,-73.99646&sspn=0.006991,0.012252&ie=UTF8&om=0&layer=c&cbll=40.73141,-73.99697&cbp=1,213.000080125058,0.5,0&ll=40.735243,-73.996761&spn=0.007479,0.014591&z=16" In the embedded...

Does anyone here think that wikipedia and google are some sort of free schooling?

http://www.google.com/tisp/ :cool:

Anyone used this so far? what do you think?

Google Smart Calculator Want to add up a list of numbers, convert from miles to kilometers, or evaluate some other mathematical expression? Instead of using a piece of paper, your calculator, or a computer math software program, you can now solve mathematical problems with this AJAX JavaScript...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/12/18/google.nasa.ap/index.html

does anyone know of a fast ode solver in pure C? a google search yields many solvers, but mostly in fortran...

Here's a picture of my home, sweet home and neighbourhood as taken from a satellite used by the Google Earth software. It's the one with the red circle around it. http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n44/arunbg/myhome.jpg Admire the lush greenery of God's Own Country, Kerala :approve: I agree...

There's some horrible server errors with gmail [google mail] - it's been down for hours! It already shows up on google Trends! http://www.google.com/trends?q=error+704 Does anyone remember the last time google messed up so horribly? I don't! Must have been many eons and epochs ago. :eek:

Sometimes I find it easiest to search for a thread by Googling my name + something that I remember posting. For some reason this seems to work better than using the thread title sometimes. Quite some time ago...at least months, and I am quite certain that this was on my old computer, I...

I thought i wood try the Google FireFox toolbar spell checker for forms. Let's sea if it works on forums to. I used too copy and paste into ant email then spell check it. Maybe I know longer need to do that...:biggrin:

http://www.google.com/search?hs=2FS&hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial_s&q=55mpg+in+hectares%5E-1&btnG=Search Very useful!

THE INTERNET IS COLLAPSING THE INTERNET IS COLLAPSING THE INTERNET IS COLLAPSING Mark this moment my friends, 4:27 AM PST, 12:27 GMT. Google's services are unvailable. Ok and as of 12:29, they are back up. Man if my old computer was like google...

Time to alert you geeks to a new method of wasting hours of time looking at useless graphs. http://www.google.com/trends?q=Albert+einstein%2C+isaac+Newton%2C+galileo+galilei&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all

http://www.google.com/davincicode?source=brpp Who's playing this? None of the challenges are really THAT hard (except for today's, Day 19) I think you win something if you're one of the first 10,000 to beat it (WHo actually read ALL of the rules...?)

According to Google, the puzzles require skill, intellect, and perseverance. Google promises that should anyone answer all 24 puzzles correctly, they will have a chance of winning "untold riches." (oooh) The Google webquests run over a span of 24 days ending May 11th 2006. One new puzzle of the...

It seems google has accepted that some people can not spell, with its intuitive search it will suggest an alternative to an unknown term, this made me wonder if we even need to spell correctly, as long as people understand what one has written.